Paper (Watermarks: similar to
Briquet Etoile 6033), ff. i (modern paper) + 100, 213 x 151 (113 x
68) mm., contemporary foliation in top right margin of both recto and
verso, written in 28 ruled lines with single vertical and horizontal
bounding lines in hardpoint. There is an additional vertical bounding
line in the outer margin for the finding aids. No signs of
pricking.

I-X12.
Stitches holding the last quire (XI) have been carefully cut, and the quire
removed. Catchwords in brown ink, centered below text in lower margin (Derolez
12.1); two catchwords on f. 48v, one in red ink and a second, below the first,
in brown. A 2 is written the lower left corner, verso, of the fourth
folio of most quires (the inside verso of the second quaternian of the quire).

Written by a single scribe in a
humanistic cursive below the top line.

A sketch-like pen and ink
drawing in the lower margin of f. 1r depicts four cherubs holding a
void circle. Additionally the text on f. 1r begins with a 4-line blue
initial, infilled with a simple black ink design; the other two books
begin with plain 3-line initials, red on f. 39r and blue on f. 93v.
Headings, finding aids, and paragraph markers, and numeration in
red.

Written in Italy in the
fifteenth century. Early provenance unknown. Sale of a deceased
nobleman (by Sotheby, 16 Feb. 1931, catalogue entry pasted inside
front cover) to Cullum. Owned by Howard L. Goodhart (De Ricci census
no. written in lead on inside front cover), and given by him to
Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (2 bookplates) and John Dozier Gordan,
Jr.